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U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, long a supporter of VUMC and its research mission, toured labs in the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research Center and the Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology, and spoke to researchers about the need to loosen federal funding restrictions on stem cell research.